Atlantic salmon is the most popular fish on our dinner tables. We’re told it is good for us and good for the environment. The reality is …
10.11.2023
BOOK BY CATHERINE COLLINS AND DOUG FRANTZ
Salmon Wars:
The dark underbelly of our favorite fish
Summary:
Atlantic salmon is the most popular fish on our dinner tables. We’re told it is good for us and good for the environment. The reality is disturbingly different. Cutting through the industry hype, Salmon Wars shows readers the massive ocean feedlots where millions of farmed salmon are crammed into parasite-infested cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. It exposes how the industrialization of this iconic fish threatens wild salmon, risks our health, and damages our environment. The vivid stories, fact-based research, and previously undisclosed documents at the core of this book mean you’ll never look at salmon the same way again.
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1. In the marine waters of the Northwest, these orca whales prey exclusively on fish—and not just any fish: salmon, and preferentially Chinook, the biggest salmon in the Pacific. In this, these orcas (sometimes called Southern Residents) have plenty in common with some of the other longtime native residents of this place: the Lummi Nation.
2. In the Lummi language, the local orcas are called Qwe ‘lhol mechen.
3. When the Lummi first came to this Douglas fir and cedar cloaked land and its glacially carved bays and inlets, the Southern Residents were here to greet them.
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